“POL POT”

Pol Pot was born in 1925 (as Saloth Sar) into a farming family in central Cambodia

Pol Pot declared "Year Zero" and began a radical program to create an idealized agrarian communist society. He crushed social institutions such as banking and religion and emptied cities of their inhabitants.

Khmer Rouge, "Red Khmers,"  a left-wing Cambodian Khmer Rouge, "Red Khmers,"  a left-wing Cambodian faction in the 1950s. Led by Pol Pot gained control of Cambodia in 1975. one of the century's greatest massacres. KILLING FIELDS

The Khmer Rouge secret police turned this Phnom Penh high school into its headquarters, renamed S-21. Thousands were tortured and executed in former classrooms.

Intellectuals and anyone else seen as standing in the way of the new social order were mercilessly killed, others died from overwork and starvation